Nude Camping, It's not just for adults anymore

USA News and Views ^ | 07/26/03 | Paul Walfield

[westgirl123]

The Times points out that parents who enroll their pre-teen and teen age kids to the nation’s growing number of nudist camps geared for that age group aren’t very concerned about it and in fact find it a wholesome and safe environment. Actually, according to the Times, “‘The Nudist Association, the larger of two nationwide, sees this as a place to train ‘youth ambassadors’ to what nudists call the ‘textile’ world.”’ Apparently, there is a movement to convert or at least desensitize us all to nudity. Perhaps they even want us all to be so desensitized that we also stop seeing the connection between nudity and sex.

[Terriergal]

It's hard to fathom how much such people hate their children.

Perfectly said.

[Richard Kimball]

but alas, I will be on a camping trip for a week.

Considering the subject of this article, should I ask where you're going?

[Terriergal]

Nutcases from both extremes are tedious

What's the other extreme? Expecting children and others to dress modestly?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Nudist selling nude kid videos ( Nude Kid Camps )

[Terriergal]

What about poison ivy?

One would think after a week at nudist camp that people would be converted back to normalcy.

Genesis 3: 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Any way we try to weasel back into that garden, we get burned.

[Terriergal]

Nudist selling nude kid videos ( Nude Kid Camps )

"I'm shocked -- shocked -- to find that gambling is going on in here!"

[elfman2]

"What you're saying may have been true of certain environments such as colleges, but there are three main trends when it comes to this kind of dress: One is that it's been moving to younger and younger ages; the second is that it's been moving into more mainstream suburban-type environments;"

I can't speak to the issue of cold climates. But I think that the trend toward younger kids in the suburbs ran its course 30 years ago. I remember skimpy sexy dressed girls in junior high in SE Texas, and all the pubescent Madonna wannabes wearing lingerie across the nation in the early 80s. Even then there were a grade schoolers aspiring to the trend.

Lately the trend is to show a little less skin, with the exception of the low riders and thong underwear, and to be a little less blatantly risqué. Bras are always worn and usually covered, as opposed to making them a showpiece in the 90s. I think the trend is moving sideways at worst/best. I wasn't a parent in the 80s, but I suspect they had similar problems finding fashionable yet modest clothes for kids.

[inquest]

I wasn't a parent in the 80s, but I suspect they had similar problems finding fashionable yet modest clothes for kids.

I graduated high school in '88, and in my time in school up till then clothing was by and large pretty well under control. Of course there were exceptions, but that's what they were - exceptions.

[bicycle thug]

"Why the unnecessary excerpting?"

" (PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!) "

Oh, Now I understand your tag line. You just want the rest of us to have to read the whole damn thing. ;-)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

There was a post a couple of days ago where the owner of one of these nudist camps for kids was selling videos of the kids.

[OutSpot]

[D Rider]

What about poison ivy?

What about Nettles.

[bicycle thug]

Here's a rare article about a Christain day camp;
Sun, fun and fervor: Kids at Camp Harlow find religion in the great outdoors

[sheik yerbouty]

Lol!

[sheik yerbouty]

Hence, suntan lotion...

[Terriergal]

heh!!

[Terriergal]

I wasn't a parent in the 80s, but I suspect they had similar problems finding fashionable yet modest clothes for kids.

Never had that problem when I was a teen in the 80's. Shopped a lot at rummage sales, but there is always nice stuff that's modest *available* - sure it's not necessarily *trendy* or *in* but... what's a more important consideration?

[Terriergal]

Here's a rare article about a Christain day camp;

Wow how often do you see that kind of thing printed?

Well there *are* plenty of Bible Camps going on in the summer, so that's not an unusual occurrence...and you know papers usually go for shock value and try to make the shocking thing look "avante garde."

[inquest]

Elfman and I were making a comparison between clothing styles of today and earlier decades. Would you agree that it's gotten worse since you were a teenager?

[biblewonk]

I remember halters too. It seems women used to be less shy about being braless than they are now. Today it is push up bras and low fitting jeans. The bible sure implies that slut wear doesn't change from generation to generation.